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The Visitor
Midnight whispered to the sea,moonlight poking through the trees,and through the window wandered dread,his shadow tall, his eyes so red. As I stared up from my bed,certain that I couldn’t flee,I shivered as his shadow spread,creeping ever close to me. I mouthed to midnight, silently,but she could only watch him tread,across the room with so…
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Flashback – Once Bitten…
My mother doesn’t ask where I go at night,when the moon is high and healthy.She just asks that I put my clothes in a white vinegar bath when I arrive home. Nothing is said about torn wallpaper,and the entrails that trail along the carpet,to my bedroom,the scratches along the frame of the door where the…
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Witching Hour
The air seems to echo.Her shadow stares as I sleep.I see her eyes even when mine are tightly shut,and all I do is agonise.I stopped making sense over the summer,never looking back,tossing salt over my left shoulder,leaving a trail as I trawl through the days with a million reasons for my melancholy. The walls of…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 